sinister

sinister is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
2. adjective. Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
3. adjective. Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
4. adjective. Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
5. adjective. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

   "a baleful look"

   "forbidding thunderclouds"

   Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening

6. adjective. on or starting from the wearer's left

   "bar sinister"

7. adjective. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable-Thomas Hardy

   "black deeds"

   "a black lie"

   Synonyms: black, dark

Synonyms

baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening, black, dark

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sinister:

insister, reinsist, sisterin

Common word forms

sinisterly, sinisterness

Words from these letters

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